FILE – This 1975 file photo shows Richard Bach. Bach, who is known for his 1970s best-selling novella “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” among other spiritually oriented writings, was in serious condition Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, after his small plane crashed in Washington state. His son James Bach told the Associated Press his father was on his way to visit a friend on San Juan Island in the north Puget Sound on Friday when his amphibian plane clipped a power line as it landed, sending the aircraft into a crash. (AP Photo/File)